What started as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into violence and six days of civil unrest known as the Watts Riots ...

The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the ...

Charles Parks, a retired commander for the Long Beach Police Department, has plenty of stories to tell about his 33-year ...

Leaders and researchers look back at Watts since the 1965 riots and answer the question: Is it better now than back then?

Today, Watts’ elders wonder if things have changed too much. Factories goaded by the riots into hiring blacks eventually shut down or moved out, making it hard for high school grads to find a ...

California Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally brought a brick Friday to a gathering just steps away from where the Watts riots began nearly 40 years ago. Back then, Dymally, who has represented the area ...

Still, events kept Watts in voters’ minds. In March 1966, another riot broke out in Watts; two died. And just before the November election, rioting exploded in a black neighborhood in San Francisco.

Sixty years after the Watts Riots (sometimes referred to as Watts Uprising or Watts Rebellion), young people like Hernandez ...

Several buildings on fire at the same time, during the rioting in the Watts area. Photo courtesy: Los Angeles Public Library Fifty years ago this week, a highway patrolman clashed with a black ...

The Watts Riots occurred in August 1965 in the Watts section of Los Angeles after a white Highway Patrolman pulled over a black male driver on suspicion of drunk driving. According to the Civil ...

Tune in to NBC4 Southern California on Tuesday, August 11 at 7 p.m. for an hour-long special, “50 Watts,” which takes an in-depth look at one of the most significant times in Southern ...

Watts is considered the first of a long series of black-led urban riots, known in the media of the 1960s as "long, hot summers." It was the first race riot to be nationally televised.